Minna Harkavy
Born	1887  ( 1887 )
Died	1987 (aged 99–100)
Known for	Sculpture

Minna Harkavy (November 13, 1887 ? 1987; birth occasionally listed as 1895 ^{[1] [2]} ) was an American sculptor.

Biography [ edit ]

Harkavy was born in Estonia to Yoel and Hannah Rothenberg ^[3] and immigrated to the United States around 1900. ^[4] She studied at the Art Students League , at Hunter College and in Paris with Antoine Bourdelle . ^[5]

Harkavy was a WPA Federal Art Project artist, for whom she created a 1942 wood relief piece, Industry and Landscape of Winchendon for the post office in Winchendon, Massachusetts . ^[6]

She was a founding member of the Sculptors Guild and showed a work, My Children are Desolate Because the Enemy Prevailed in the Second Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition ^[7] Negro Head in the 1940-1941 ^[8] and Woman in Thought in 1941. ^[9]

Harkavy was a founding member of the New York Society of Women Artists . Politically she was known as a leftist and anti-fascist with a strong social consciousness. In 1931 she exhibited a bust of Hall Johnson in the Museum of Western Art in Moscow and the work was purchased for the Pushkin Museum there. ^[10] In 1932 she represented the John Reed Club at an anti-war conference in Amsterdam . ^[3]

A bust of Italian-American anti-fascist (and her lover ^[3] ) Carlo Tresca who was assassinated in New York in 1943 was installed in his birthplace of Sulmona , Italy. ^[10]

Harkavy was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949.

She married Louis Harkavy, a New York pharmacist who also wrote for Yiddish-language periodicals. ^[3]

Work [ edit ]

Harkavy's works can be found in:

• USPO , Winchendon, Massachusetts ^[6]
• Whitney Museum of American Art ^[11]
• Merchandise Mart , Chicago, Illinois ^[12]
• Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia ^[13]

Harkavy's New England Woman , was displayed at the New York World's Fair of 1939 ^[3]

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